Clothes-drier.



H. O. BUYER.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2a. 1912 Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

by any convenient means.

HUGH G. BUYER, PORTLAND. OREGON.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 191 3.

Application filed May 28. 1912. Serial No. 700.204.

a all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH C. Boron, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland. in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Briers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to an improvement in clothes driers, and has for its object to provide a rack which is adapted to be set up on the floor about a hot air register, in such manner that articles may be suspended within it to receive the current of air coming from the register.

A further object is to provide such a device in which articles may be arranged in small area and quickly dried, which device is capable of beingfolded into small space for storage.

I accomplish these and other objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective elevation of the device, as in use. Fig. 2 a top view in collapsed position. Fig. 3 is a slight moditication showing a means of attaching the supporting rods to the frame.

Referring to the drawing in dctail, .1 designates the upper bars of a frame made substantially in the form of a cube. Each of tho lateral faces a, l), 1' and 1] ol the frame consists of a rectangular frame which is hinged to its contiguous member, mus-crutivcly from 1/. to 1! upon hinges 3, the members r1v and 1! being hinged upon their inner tar-cs while I) and 1' are hinged upon their outer .t'accs, so that the four sides may be erected upon the tloor about the register 14, the members uniting each with the other in a neat union, and the free edges of members a and 1/ may be secured togz cthcr, if desired, Upon the inner faces of the vertical frames is secured a covering of canvas 7, though oil-cloth or other suitable fabric may bcemployod. When the side frames thus covered are in working position, as seen in Fig. l, the air from the register is directed upwardly, to

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' pass through the articles and out at the open upper end. i

. in opposing bars at. the upper side of the frame are formed a plurality of oppositely disposed notches 2 arranged in spaced relation along the upper faces thereof. In each opposing pair of these notches is placed a rod over which may be suspended any article 9, above the register in the floor. The rods may be disposed very close-together or at any convenient distance apart, and in this manner a great many articles may be supported in an exceedingly small space, and at the same time. be in a measure concealed The rods. when not in use are supported in pocket 8 and keeper 4, upon one of the vertical frames. in Fig. 3 the rudlO is shown mounted in one of the upper frame bars, in an eye 13, and engaged by means of a hook 12 upon a pin ll, in the opposite bar. By this means they are always attached to the frame where they are to he used, and can not become lost.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. drving rack comprising a quadrilatral frame, having closed sides, with open upper and lower ends, and parallel support-- mgr rods anchored in spaced relation across tho top ot' the frame.

2. A drying rack comprising a quadrilat-- oral frame having vertical side members hinged togi-tlu-r at their adjacent edges, each side nu-mhcr being covered with fabric, and a plurality of parallel rods supported in spaced relation across the open upper end of the frame.

:5. A. drying rack comprising a frame work consisting of a plurality of vertical. Sltlt members lunged together at their adjacont cdg'cs. so that said members may he collapscd to lie onc upon another, each side member being covered with fabric and disposable in-ctmtinuous series to form a vertii'ul conduit, and a plurality of supporting rods pivotally scoured alon the upper face of one side member and atapted to be engaged upon the upper face of the opposite In testimony whereof I aifix my signature side member. in presence of two Witnesses. f 4 .'& dr 1ng rack compr1s1ng a. vertlcal HUGH BUYER rame havlngn contmuous lateral member 5 wi th open upper and lower endi: and sup- Witnesses:

porting rods anchored across the top of the J. T. ELLIS,

frame. 3 M. Rm'xonns. 

